This is right. So many incentives are stacked in favor of making false attributions, specifically to enemy state actors:
- real attacker doesn't want to get caught
- victim doesn't want to admit being pwned by a script kiddy or petty criminal
- military-industrial complex needs foreign threat inflation to stay in business
- media loves the intrigue
The pushback would come from the foreign state being falsely slandered, but they never get a say anyways.